Re: [maybe spam] Re: A modern programming language for FreeBSD: Swift

Hello,

I think that modern, "safe", hyped  language with transpiler to C will have no objection to include to the src base.

May be this is the way.

https://github.com/dbohdan/compilers-targeting-c


Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 2:55:26 AM, you wrote:

>> On 6/14/25 10:06 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 01:06:40PM +0000, Jordan Gordeev wrote:
>> >>   * support for dynamic linking (incl. to libc for isolating generated code from changes to the userland?kernel interface)
>> > What specifically do you mean there?
>> >
>> > Does swift run over the C runtime, or like Go, it implements its own
>> > runtime directly interacting with kernel syscalls?
>> 
>> I have a Basic to C converter on my BSD web page..? I haven't changed 
>> it for? a couple of decade or so but it did run last I looked.. Maybe 
>> we can use it to maintain FreeBSD in basic!?? Only takes a few 
>> millisecs to covert a CBASIC program to C.?? Lets go for a language 
>> that isn't "fashionable", but really has history!
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBASIC

> As much as I like the simplistic idea of BASIC, having first learned
> it in 1969, I would rather if we must retrograde lets pick something
> with a "bit" more "bit handling" like PL/1?
>  
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSY2V3_5.1.0/com.ibm.ent.pl1.zos.doc/lrm.pdf




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Best regards,
Anthony